The Heart-Warming True Story, and Award-Winning Documentary of a 4th Grade Class and their Teacher.

Mr. Toshiro Kanamori is a unique teacher that has a sincere desire to connect with his students and create an environment that teaches each student important life lessons in compassion, teamwork, community, honesty, openness, coping, bullying and death. Anything that the year throws at them they discuss and deal with openly and lovingly.

Mr Kanamori asks each student to put their deepest feelings down on paper and then asks them to read their letter (thereby exposing their feelings) to their classmates. By sharing their lives with their classmates the children learn lessons in empathy and begin to care for each other in a deeper and more meaningful way than they ever have before. After reading their letter out in class the students spirit seemingly rise as their story resonates and touches the hearts and minds of their fellow students - everyone student learns a lesson from the others letters.

You will see the students free themselves of the unnecessary burdens that bottling up ones emotions invariably does. Watching these students reading their letters and opening their hearts in front of us all is a deeply moving display of honesty and courage that I am sure everyone can learn from.

Witness the intimate moments as the students laugh, cry, hug and care for each other and discover the benefits of sharing your powerful and very personal emotions with others brings.

In Mr Toshiro Kanamori’s school of life - the goal is to be happy and care for each other. Anything else is a bonus.

Children Full of Life was awarded the Global Television Grand Prize at the 25th Anniversary Banff Television Festival, the festival’s highest honour and the first time Japan took the top prize.

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